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... I like travelling and foreign languages, but obviously either I don't fit with conceived ideas about that role or... well, the speculations could be infinite. As a result, my attitude became even colder ...

... welcome from the people of Rossosh she is now on such good terms with. Such beautiful bonds of friendship across frontiers, cultures and languages are probably so much stronger as they need to wipe out ...

... in Arabic. Even a Palestinian friend uses other common languages to talk to Moroccans, if this is enough to give an idea. Only on the last day did I happen to ask information of a few people who could ...

... notably D'Annunzio, went out of their way to contrive new words that could replace foreign ones. Some of them have endured and this is why Italian calls football calcio, whereas other Latin languages at ...

I haven’t read a great deal in the last few months and my statistics show a sharp drop this year. I couldn’t be defined a chain reader, but I still had a yearly average of about 20 books, which is a ...

... the teaching of English so poor in my country, but I couldn’t blame him. He was perfectly right. In Italy, like in other southern European countries, foreign languages (now especially English) are taught ...

... there is hardly any other means to express oneself. Foreign languages are even trickier because we don’t have a full command of their subtleties. My interest in languages may seem to clash with my reserved ...

... who study Chinese in the afternoon classes and eventually get to learn two languages perfectly. My sincere admiration was marred by the unavowed wistful thought that I would never reach this ideal of perfection. ...

... is alien from us?
This anxiety has spurred reflections on my life. Travelling, cultivating international friendships, or learning languages are all devices I adopt to compensate a deficiency and build ...

... lady was adamant and urged me to seek fulfilment always and not content myself with second best. Seeing I could speak foreign languages, she assumed I had every chance to find something suitable. Her ideas ...

On the radio today I heard a child saying that jet planes are the force of nature that makes clouds because of the white streak they leave behind. As I chuckled at his self-assured would-be scientific ...

... by heart in old languages. Then only one goes on chanting by himself and even when the driver turns on the radio, he carries on undeterred. The atmosphere inside our minibus matches perfectly the cultural ...

... to my enthusiasm for languages and world cultures – and also say the exact moment I began being interested in particular ones, but that’s another story, so let’s talk general first.
In May that ...